Geffen Hall, David Geffen School of Medicine

UCLA

Project Details

ROLE
CM/GC

CONTRACT AMOUNT
$90 Million

OWNER
University of California, Los Angeles

LOCATION
Los Angeles, CA

ARCHITECT
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

SIZE
120,000 Square Feet

COMPLETION
2016

Project Description

Designed in partnership with SOM architects for the School of Medicine Geffen Hall, formerly known as the Teaching & Learning Center for Health Sciences, is a 120,000sf, six-story campus building, containing learning and support spaces, lecture halls, common areas, classrooms, problem-based learning rooms, student amenities and faculty offices. The building structure is conventionally reinforced, poured-in-place concrete with some post-tensioned elements.

The project also included a complicated make-ready phase. This involved a complex phasing plan developed by Rudolph and Sletten to re-route utilities and pedestrian and vehicular traffic without impacting the functions of the University. 

The building includes formal learning rooms with a 300-seat lecture hall, two 200-seat multipurpose rooms, case study rooms, teaching labs and seminar rooms. The building contains a public courtyard, faculty offices, offices for the Dean of the Medical School and student oriented spaces. The project was built immediately adjacent to an operating medical building and two parking structures.

The project achieved LEED Platinum NC.

Awards

LEED Platinum

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